U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over Baghdad from a helicopter. Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday as he began a tour of the Middle East to build military, political and financial support to defeat Islamic State militants controlling parts of Iraq and Syria. Kerry says the US has

Women mourn as they watch from a window the funeral of Issa al Qitri, a Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli troops, at al-Amari camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The soldiers, seeking to detain a Hamas militant, were confronted by around 50 Palestinians who hurled stones, petrol bombs

Martin Tata sits on his five-year-old horse "Primavera" as he performs a demonstration of "Indian taming" at the Polo Club Puesto Viejo ranch in Canuelas, northeast of Buenos Aires. Tata says the techniques that he uses to tame unbroken horses avoids unnecessary violence and

This 2004 picture shows an employee for Coca-Cola Japan demonstrating how to buy a soft drink from a vending machine with a mobile phone equipped with Sony´s NFC technology FeliCa in Tokyo. Felica NFC with mobile phones for the mobile wallet were launched in Japan in 2004, while Apple

Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices to ensure it does not pose a health risk to others and stop the chain of person-to-person transmission of Ebola. Liberia is facing a "serious threat" to its national existence as the deadly Ebola virus "spreads

File picture shows two women and a young girl being treated by a medic in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus. A toxic chemical, almost certainly chlorine, was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in attacks on

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet gives a speech at La Moneda Palace, in Santiago. Bachelet has condemned a bomb attack on a shopping centre in a busy metro station in the capital Santiago on Monday. The attack, in which 14 people were injured, is one of the worst since democracy was restored in